Girl Died With Tumor

Delayed response from the district administration in providing health care support to the poor forced Chandrama Banua , a 15 year old girl from Kanagaon village of Borigumma block in Koraput district to die . While much was said about the health care at the doorstep of the people in KBK districts by the government , all the schemes seemed to have failed with her death .
Chandrama had been suffering from a huge tumor in her belly for the last many months . But all attempts made by her parents to treat her in the local hospitals with own effort and financial strength had failed to give any results , Kamal Lochan , her father said . While cash starved Kamal was becoming poorer day by day , recently after learning the plight of the family and deterioting condition of the girl , helping hands from the social sector adding some support from Red Cross came forward to help Chandrama to get a treatment in the medical college at Cuttack . But it was already late and by the time she could be shifted Chandrama had breathed her last .